7 U.S.C. § 2353
Testimony in Plant Variety Protection Office cases
United States · Title 7 — AGRICULTURE · Status: effective
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- 7 U.S.C. § 2353, Testimony in Plant Variety Protection Office cases, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/430350
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The Secretary may establish regulations for taking affidavits, depositions, and other evidence required in cases before the Plant Variety Protection Office. Any officer authorized by law to take depositions to be used in the courts of the United States, or of the State where the officer resides, may take such affidavits and depositions, and swear the witnesses. If any person acts as a hearing officer by authority of the Secretary, the person shall have like power.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments of 1994House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally